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AMD® Phenom™ II Overclocking Thread

Lovely, 9 hours prime @3.6GHz / 1.365 vcore, NB @2200 / 1.225v, memory @1600 / 9-9-9-24 / 1.66v. Today is an happy day :D

Now... shall I be adventurous and pump the NB to 2400? :o
 
eddyc:

Just what i've read on various review sites that have OC'd the 965.

I read a bunch while I was waiting for mine to turn up, and in a nutshell they said HT wasn't worth OC'ing as the bandwidth is more than enough for anything.

CPU-NB however gave good boosts when the CPU was also OC'd and that 2400-2800 was the sweet spot.
 
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eddyc said:
liamcrane - 0% llc does not turn it off. If you set it to 0% you will find that the vcore increases under load (negative vdroop). If you already have your vcore set quite high in bios this can be quite dangerous for your chip.
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Your spot on eddy i forgot to mention that :) I do suffer from both vdroop and vrise so to speak i just lowered my vcore at 3.7ghz to 1.41 from 1.43 and ran stable on prime for 9 hrs thats with 9% LLC but according to hardware monitor my vcore hit 1.52 at some point and 1.31 as well, sometimes im sad and will sit there and watch it for 30mins and to be fair my vcore stays pretty close to what i set it to in the bios maybe hardware monitor is given off a false vcore reading at some point i dont know but im guessing its just my board i have its not the best. Really would like a new board soon but dont no which way to turn, always had asus and cant really afford to go for a dd3 board as that means new ram to etc, any good ddr2
am2+ boars around?
 
Certainly in no way even close to stable, but if I can get into windows just long enough to load up the apps and take a screenie, it gives me hope of a good-un :)

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Not sure whats going on with HW monitor, the free version correctly ID's the 965, the pro version says its a 550 lol !
 
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Vogon, also that crash help guide i don't agree with...

i've found a blue screen is core clocks/cpu voltage related , prime error is NB vid/IMC memory related, just a crash/dissapear from desktop i agree could be temp related
 
Yeah I know theres no chance of 4.2 stable lol.
@ Gareth, I think that was actually referring to cinebench , but assumed it would be similar with any stress test tbh. AM3 overclocking is new too me so I am just trying to read up on it.
currently trying for 4, core 4 was wimping out after a few mins in prime, backed nb off to 2400 (voltage already @1.225) and its been going longer so far, but as I typed core 2 wimped out on me doh !
 
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